After almost 3.5 years running my umbrel raspi I am sunsetting it for good. While I gave up on being a routing node and closed all the channels and opened one big private channel to wallet of Satoshi it become much more stable.

I was using it for zaps and other small ln purchases/donations but today my node randomly went down. After power cycling asking for help on telegram (and getting ignored) I reflashed the SD card and it came back.

But I’m over this node being unstable. So time to close the last channel and sweep the funds. This was my first successful node and I feel sad moving on from it but after today now it is time. I’ll retire and store it away with my other bitcoin hardware.

My casa node My nodl And my Coinmine 😂

Now maybe I’ll get the purposely built umbrel node. I love that I can self host NWC and use tailscale with Zeus! That alone makes me want to stay with umbrel.